EXWEL TRUST

The Ex-servicemen & Social Welfare Trust was formally declared open on 22.4.2006 to serve for the ex-servicemen and socially backward public. The Trust is promoted by the veterans of the three services.

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Retired army officers, who have completed 75 years of age, are entitled to a
grant of Rs 50,000.00 from the Army Officers Benevolent Fund.

Kindly share this information among the retired Army Officers in your city. (In
case of demise of an officer, during service or later before completing 75
years, this amount is payable to the next of kin immediately after the demise
of the officer. It is also applicable to officers settled abroad.)
No formal application is required for claiming the platinum grant. However the
retired officers are required to intimate their postal addresses and Bank
Account Numbers as and when they enter their 75th year at following address for
updating the records :-
Director Accounts
Ceremonial & Welfare Directorate
Adjutant General's Branch
Army Headquarters
South Block, Room No 279
DHQ PO New Delhi - 110011
Tele No - 011-26196217​

Monday, March 2, 2015

A Delegation of IESM led by our Chairman
Gen.Satbir Singh metDefence Minister
Mr. Manohar Parrikar on 2-3-2015and
expressed the aunguishment /dissatisfaction of Ex-servicemen community regardingNon-Mention of OROP in the on 28-2-2015 in the Budget..

Defence Minister , after
hearing the grievances patiently , asked the Delegation to becomfortable in the meeting.He informed thatan amount of Rs.8300 Crores has been
allotted for OROP and it is included in the Defecne Budget and waiting for the
Modality to be released .

DM has requested the ESM
community to wait forfew more days to
hear a Happy and favourableNews in this
regard.

Gen.Satbir Singh thanked
our Defence minister and told him that this is the first time the Demands of
Ex-Servicemen are being given proper consideration and attention.

Gen.Satbir Singhalso put forward 2 more points in the meeting for
consideration.

1.Family pension
not enhanced in the last revision.

2.. Pre-1996Majors, having Qualifying service of 21
yrsnot paid the pension of Lt.Col

And
those who are short of few months for 21 yrs also may be considered.

3.Defence Minister
has agreed to consider both the cases favourably.

Dear
Veteran Brothers, this is the latestNews and please be patientand
hope that we have the Present Defence Minister with us and for our cause.

Friday, February 27, 2015

The picture shows Tarun Vijay giving memorandum to the defence minister in his office in Raksha Mantralaya on 26th Feb 2015.

NEW DELHI: BJP MP Tarun Vijay, who is also member, parliamentary
standing committee on defence and president, Uttarakahnd's Society to
Help Armed Retired Personnel met defence minister Manohar Parrikar on
Thursday and gave him a memorandum demanding that the long standing
issue of 'one rank, one pension' be resolved in favour of the soldiers.

He said that if the government feels a crunch of funds, please take
away the privileges given to the MPs and MLAs and give the funds to the
forces so that their legitimate and logical demand to get 'one rank, one
pension' is met. He said that soldiers give their best to the nation
but they are forced to die early and run from pillar to post after
retirement. Tarun Vijay told the minister that soldiers were
disappointed by the UPA, they have great hopes from PM Modi and him, as a
minister.

Tarun Vijay told media persons that Parrikar was very
sympathetic to his demands and fully agreed that the government must
act sympathetically to the long standing demands of the forces. He said,
"as the defence minister I stand with my soldiers". Their demands will
certainly receive sympathetic consideration.

Tarun Vijay also
said that there are more than 3000 cases regarding disability pension
pending in courts. Soldiers' basic pension was revised in line with 6
CPC recommendation from 24 Sep 2012 (instead of 1-1-2006) but disability
pension has not yet been revised notwithstanding various letters
written on the subject by various associations. CAT had given clear
verdict but legitimate dues are being denied. Broad banding of
disability pension has been denied in spite of AFT/ SC orders.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

OUR
Govt this time has decided that the military personnel, who retire at a
much earlier age and undergo life-threatening postings, can not be equated with
other government employees.

Both the Finance and Defence Ministers, Arun Jaitely and Manohar
Parrikar, have approved the step.

OROP basically implies payment of uniform pension to
personnel retiring in the same rank with the same length of service,
irrespective of their date of retirement.

“Military
pension as a category has been defined as separate from others based on a
series of criteria.This takes into account the
hardship factor like being posted in far-flung areas, risky life-threatening
duties and long hours of hardship,“ a source said.

NEW DELHI: The much-awaited "one rank, one
pension (OROP)'' for the armed forces is likely to be part of the Union budget,
and could be implemented soon thereafter with the government defining
"military pension'' as a category separate from other kinds of
pension. An estimated Rs 8,000 crore is likely to be
allocated by the government to fulfill its commitment to the over 25 lakh
ex-servicemen, who have been stridently demanding OROP for several years without
much success despite all political parties promising its implementation.